Kidney removal waiting time at Orange Health Service
Half of patients at Orange Health Service waited 24 days or less for kidney removal in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Nephrectomy". This public hospital is in the Spring Creek area of New South Wales.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 24 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 11 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 57 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 12 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has risen from 23 days in 2017–18 to 24 days in 2024–25 — up 4% — while the national median rose from 27 days to 30 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Nephrectomy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orange Health Service | 24 days | not published | 11 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 36 days | 0.8% | 746 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 30 days | 0.6% | 2721 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 30 days marks the national median.
Dubbo Hospital, NSW · about 128 km away: 67 days
Nepean Hospital, NSW · about 158 km away: 73 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 180 km away: 41 days
Liverpool Hospital, NSW · about 183 km away: 36 days
Westmead Hospital, NSW · about 184 km away: 77 days
Concord Repatriation Hospital, NSW · about 194 km away: 24 days
Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW · about 202 km away: 29 days
St George Hospital NSW, NSW · about 202 km away: 28 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- Orange Health Service
- NSW
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Orange Health Service (days) | NSW (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 29 | 26 |
| 2017–18 | 23 | 29 | 27 |
| 2018–19 | 24 | 28 | 28 |
| 2019–20 | 20 | 28 | 28 |
| 2020–21 | 23 | 29 | 29 |
| 2021–22 | 15 | 31 | 28 |
| 2022–23 | 25 | 32 | 30 |
| 2023–24 | not published | 44 | 32 |
| 2024–25 | 24 | 36 | 30 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
All surgery at Orange Health Service · Kidney removal across Australia · Kidney removal in New South Wales · All surgery waits in New South Wales